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Friday, December 19, 2014

We have received news that the current government of Ecuador
led by President Rafael Correa has delivered to the House of CONAIE in Quito an eviction order with the expressed
intent to unilaterally end the formal loan agreement on the building occupied
by the indigenous movement of Ecuador for 30 years.

The colonizing settler states presently enjoying
international recognition in the Americas derive their claims to jurisdiction in
the hemisphere as successors to the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings of Christendom
via the Doctrine of Discovery of
October 12, 1492. In 1823, this Doctrine of Divine Right as States of the Americas was then modified and
reinforced continentally from Washington, DC by way of the Monroe Doctrine.In spite
of this, throughout the entire 522 years since 1492 we Original Nations have
resisted at every turn the illegal
colonization by the European Americans of our continent of Abya Yala, the Great Turtle Island.The
territorial titles of the states which are based on the rejected and denounced Papal Bull Inter Caetera 1493 and other
racist schemes carry no moral weight, nor reasonable validity or jurisprudence
in a just society, whether in Ecuador or anywhere else in the continent.

In 1990 at the First Continental Indigenous Encounter
a historic proclamation of denunciation and call to justice on behalf of the
Indigenous Peoples regarding these issues was made, and now in 2014 we are still
fighting for that cause, for the House
of CONAIE.We continue to struggle
and construct collectively a House of
Justice where we can once again greet each other as Relatives and Allies of
the Confederation of the Eagle and Condor: La Casa de CONAIE.We express our undiminished solidarity and
commitment to CONAIE and all Indigenous Peoples as we continue the task of
humanizing and harmonizing global society with the natural world as children of
the Nations of Mother Earth.

We support the call by CONAIE for rejection of the order to
vacate the Casa de CONAIE and stand
in solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador to have their headquarters
restored to them with full and permanent title.

It is with great concern and a profound sense of injustice
that we receive reports of actions by your government to remove the
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) from their
headquarters in the Casa de CONAIE in Quito.
The CONAIE is a longstanding sister organization among all Indigenous
Peoples of Abya Yala [the Americas], and their headquarters fulfills a very
real and important role for Indigenous Peoples not only in Ecuador but across
the continent. We cannot accept their
removal from the home they have established after 30 years of struggle for
justice and self-determination.

We stand in solidarity with CONAIE and call for immediate
restitution of the Casa de CONAIE with full and permanent title as a positive
act by your government in fulfillment of the International Human Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador.

Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of EcuadorDECLARATION of EMERGENCY

CONSIDERING:

That Art. 1 of the Constitution recognizes the pluricultural and
intercultural character of the Ecuadorian state, and consequently in Art.
10 identifies the communes, communities, peoples and nations as subjects of rights;

That the current Constitution and Convention 169 recognize communities, peoples
and nationalities as territorial authorities, which under the independent governments,
are also governed by their own forms of government, which the State must
recognize and respect;

That, on December 11, 2014, the national government, through the Ministry of
Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), delivered the Ministerial Resolution No.
0196 to the CONAIE, by which we are informed that the MIES terminated
unilaterally the agreement of loan signed between CONAIE and the Ministry of
Social Welfare, now the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion in 1991;

That this measure taken by the government lacks legitimacy since the CONAIE as
a government of the peoples and nationalities of Ecuador is making use of the
property in representation and defense of individual and collective rights of
ancestral peoples and of the majority, it is therefore an act of political
persecution against the Indigenous movement;

Exercising our constitutional and collective rights recognized by the
Constitution and international conventions recognized in the country, and
exercising our powers and authority as a government of Indigenous Peoples and nationalities;

WE RESOLVE:

Art. 1. To declare a State of Emergency for the communities, indigenous peoples
and nationalities of Ecuador until the conflictive situation created by the
Order of eviction, ordered by the Ecuadorian government, is resolved.

Art. 2. To convene an emergency General Assembly on Tuesday, December 23, 2014, at
the headquarters of the CONAIE, in the city of Quito, at 09h00. This GA to
adopt the necessary measures to defend the rights of communities, peoples and
nations in general, and its historic headquarters in the city of Quito.

Art. 3. To make a call to all national and international organizations to stay on the alert
regarding the violation of the rights of communities, indigenous peoples and nationalities
of Ecuador, and of social organizations.

That Art. 1 of the Constitution recognizes the pluricultural and
intercultural character of the Ecuadorian state, and consequently in Art.
10 identifies the communes, communities, peoples and nations as subjects of rights;

That the current Constitution and Convention 169 recognize communities, peoples
and nationalities as territorial authorities, which under the independent governments,
are also governed by their own forms of government, which the State must
recognize and respect;

That, on December 11, 2014, the national government, through the Ministry of
Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), delivered the Ministerial Resolution No.
0196 to the CONAIE, by which we are informed that the MIES terminated
unilaterally the agreement of loan signed between CONAIE and the Ministry of
Social Welfare, now the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion in 1991;

That this measure taken by the government lacks legitimacy since the CONAIE as
a government of the peoples and nationalities of Ecuador is making use of the
property in representation and defense of individual and collective rights of
ancestral peoples and of the majority, it is therefore an act of political
persecution against the Indigenous movement;

Exercising our constitutional and collective rights recognized by the
Constitution and international conventions recognized in the country, and
exercising our powers and authority as a government of Indigenous Peoples and nationalities;

WE RESOLVE:

Art. 1. To declare a State of Emergency for the communities, indigenous peoples
and nationalities of Ecuador until the conflictive situation created by the
Order of eviction, ordered by the Ecuadorian government, is resolved.

Art. 2. To convene an emergency General Assembly on Tuesday, December 23, 2014, at
the headquarters of the CONAIE, in the city of Quito, at 09h00. This GA to
adopt the necessary measures to defend the rights of communities, peoples and
nations in general, and its historic headquarters in the city of Quito.

Art. 3. To make a call to all national and international organizations to stay alert
regarding the violation of the rights of communities, peoples and nationalities
of Ecuador, and of social organizations.

It is with great concern and a profound sense of injustice
that we receive reports of actions by your government to remove the
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) from their
headquarters in the Casa de CONAIE in Quito.
The CONAIE is a longstanding sister organization among all Indigenous
Peoples of Abya Yala [the Americas], and their headquarters fulfills a very
real and important role for Indigenous Peoples not only in Ecuador but across
the continent. We cannot accept their
removal from the home they have established after 30 years of struggle for
justice and self-determination.

We stand in solidarity with CONAIE and call for immediate
restitution of the Casa de CONAIE with full and permanent title as a positive
act by your government in fulfillment of the International Human Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador.

In 1990 a historic Indigenous Uprising took place in
Ecuador that to this day continues to serve as reference and determinant
for the cause of the Original Nations of Abya Yala [the Americas] in
the struggle for Self Determination. A critical element of this struggle
was the establishment in Quito, Ecuador of the headquarters of the
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador -CONAIE.

Now, in spite of being elected with the perfume of a "leftist" political
philosophy, the government of President Rafael Correa is threatening to
REMOVE the CONAIE from their headquarters and continue a policy of
subjugation and suppression of the Indigeneous Peoples of Ecuador to
satisfy the economic interests the extractive industrial elites that
rule Ecuador an ALL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATES from behind the
oligarchies of colonialIsm, both Right and Left.

Press
Release

"This
building has defended democracy, it is a symbol of social and popular
struggles. The CONAIE is the home of all, and we will not allow ourselves to be
evicted."

Quito, Ecuador
December 15 2014

On December 11
the government through the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) notified the Confederation of IndigenousNationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) the unilateral termination of the loan on the
building which CONAIE has occupied for 30 years.At a press
conference today, together with national and regional indigenous leaders and
representatives of other social organizations, the president of CONAIE Jorge
Herrera stated the rejection by the indigenous movement to the termination of
loan and order to vacate.

"Here is
where the proposal for the new constitution was formulated, here is where life
was given to the proposal of the Plurinational State. This building has
defended democracy, it is a symbol of social and popular struggles. The CONAIE
is the home of all, and we will not allow ourselves to be evicted, " said
Jorge Herrera.

This is an act
characteristic of colonialism by of the government, which is an affront not
only to the indigenous movement, but to all social organizations and popular
movements, to whom this house belongs. This house corresponds to the CONAIE,
and so we demand not only the reversal of the order of eviction, but that complete
title is delivered to the organization. If the government can invest $45
million in UNASUR, there is no argument for the additional need of this
infrastructure.Nina Pacari,
historical leader of the indigenous movement and former judge of the
Constitutional Court expressed that:

"this is not about the loan, but an
incoherency by a government that call itself a pluri-national state, while
at the same time acting in political persecution of the indigenous peoples and popular
sectors." She added: "The CONAIE is owner of this home, when we got it
it only had a a dining room and we have built two floors, and made improvements
to better to serve the people and organizations. "

The presentation
of the headquarters of the CONAIE by the government, was part of the process of
historic compensation. As a uni-national, exclusionary, and racist state, the
national law of the nineties did not allow for delivery of the site as property
and it was therefore agreed that consignment would be achieved as a loan. This
juridical instrument was a formality, the house belongs to CONAIE, it is owned
by the communities, by the Indigenous Peoples, and nationalities and peoples of
Ecuador.

The former
president of CONAIE, Humberto Cholango present at the press conference said
that:

"If they take the house of CONAIE, they will be sorry because they
will then have to give back later."

He continued by framing these actions by the governement of President Rafael Correa within
the context of the violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in general,
including the elimination of bilingual intercultural education and recognition
for collective rights.

Facts:

- The building
has been in the possession of the indigenous movement since 1984, before the
formal establishment of the CONAIE.

- The loan
between the MIES and CONAIE is in effect until 2021.

- The CONAIE has
built two additional stories within the building among other substantial
improvements.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Gathered
at the Peoples Summit Against Climate Change in Lima, Peru and in full realization of the urgency for definitive
action based on our mutually shared prerogatives as Peoples of Mother Earth,
which include the Human Rights of the
Future Generations, and in affirmation of our equally shared
responsibilities to Mother Earth as kindred communities across the planet, we
address the COP20 Summit and the entirely of Human Society to PROCLAIM:

The architectures of the States and their Agreements are insufficient, incompetent,
and unrepresentative of our political will and our self determination as Peoples
of Mother Earth to address the systemic causes of climate change with the
necessary holistic and equitable approach that is necessary to avoid ecosystem
collapse and TERRACIDE.

As
Peoples of Mother Earth, we collectively determine to regenerate our relationships
among ourselves within a Cultural
Climate of MutualRespect, Inclusion, Complementarity,
and Self Determination beyond the
existing constrains of the international systems of state sovereignty and in
responsibility to the well being of the future
generations;

Recognizing
that unless this fundamental dimension of international relationships among human
societies at the planetary level is first recognized, established and affirmed,
there will be no sustainable progress in addressing effectively and in timely
manner the Climate Chaos scenario
that now befalls all of Humanity due to the impacts on Global Climate exacerbated
greenhouse gas emissions by industrial society and extractive industries in
particular in complicity with national government states and existing international
monetary systems and institutions.

Therefore
we proclaim and hereby reaffirm in collective Responsibility as Peoples of Mother Earth, in Equality with all Peoples, our collective Right of Representation and Self
Determination in addressing the issues before the COP20 beyond the
constraints of the architecture of the States and their agreements;

We
further affirm and proclaim in Full, Effective, and Complete exercise of our
equally shared Right of Self Determination
as Peoples of Mother Earth, that our Sacred
Mother Earth is subject of the Right of Self Determination beyond the limited
juridical constraints of the Westphalian System of State Sovereignty represented
in UN system and the international architectures of personality and procedures
of negotiation and agreements;

Therefore:

In fulfillment
of our shared mandate of responsibilities to the Future Generations and taking DIRECT ACTION to realize the DECOLONIZATION of MOTHER EARTH,

We declare
our INTERDEPENDENCE and Solidarity
as Peoples of Mother Earth and call
for the recognition, respect, and protection for the particular and integral constituencies of our
Peoples of Mother Earth as represented in our responsibilities to the Watersheds,
the Earth:Waters and Single Sea (hydrosphere) of the planet,
beyond the disjointed and corrupt constraints of the Westphalian System of State Sovereignty represented in the UN
system and the present international architectures of personality and
procedures of negotiation and agreements;

Such
principles of Recognition, Respect and Protection to then be instituted to address the corollary
ecological responsibilities as inscribed in the climate issues of the
inter-relationships of the Wind:Sun,
namely Mother Earth's atmospheric and planetary energetic systems, both natural
and technological, including greenhouse gas emissions.

In
furtherance of which we affirm and now proclaim our mutual commitment to defend
and protect the Territorial Integrity of
Mother Earth as a fundamental tenet of International
Law which integrates the Right of
Self Determination of the Nations of
Indigenous Peoples to intervene in the defense of Mother Earth and to take
necessary corrective action in exercise of the right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in defense of their territories
and nations.